EXPANDABLE DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210191629A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-24

    申请号:US17087100

    申请日:2020-11-02

    Abstract: An illustrative expandable data storage management system includes rules for assigning data protection operations to suitable subtending storage service cells. Each cell is specially configured to protect certain data types and/or to provide certain storage resources for backup data. The system controls customer account access, authentication, service allocation, data security, and sharing of information between a centralized “hub manager” and the storage service cells that perform storage operations, including data backup, data recovery, and data lifecycle management. The system maintains a many-to-many relationship between distinct customers and storage service cells so that any storage service cell may be responsible for protecting any number of data sources of any number of distinct customers, and responsibility for protecting any given customer's data sources may be distributed among any number of storage service cells. The system supports global searching, ensuring that a user-initiated search is applied across the storage service cells.

    Automated media agent state management

    公开(公告)号:US12181988B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-31

    申请号:US18143903

    申请日:2023-05-05

    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for automating media agent state management. For example, if a media agent is running poorly, then the media agent can be disabled and an alternate media agent can perform secondary copy job operations in place of the poorly running media agent. To determine whether a media agent is running poorly, a storage manager can determine whether the media agent has an anomalous number of failed jobs, pending jobs, and/or long running jobs and/or can determine whether the amount of resources used by the media agent is high or is increasing constantly, at a constant rate, or at a near constant rate.

    Geo-location-based data replication

    公开(公告)号:US11695831B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-04

    申请号:US17705156

    申请日:2022-03-25

    Abstract: A system or method for managing an auxiliary data location and a secondary data location. A client computing device may have secondary copies of its primary data stored at a secondary storage device, as well as auxiliary copies of the secondary copies at an auxiliary storage device. The client computing device may move from one geographic location that is near the secondary storage device to a second geographic location that is far from the secondary storage device, but closer to the auxiliary storage device. A method is provided with input signals in response to the move, and outputs a probability value that the move is temporary or permanent. Based on the output, a storage manager that manages the client computing device may then direct the client computing device to use the auxiliary storage device for storing secondary copies.

    Automated email classification in an information management system

    公开(公告)号:US11494417B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-08

    申请号:US16988457

    申请日:2020-08-07

    Abstract: An improved information management system is described herein that can use artificial intelligence to classify data files (e.g., emails, documents, audio files, video files, etc.) and/or surface in a user interface the classification assigned to the data files. For example, a lightweight training or a heavyweight training can be employed to train classifiers to classify the data files. Use of artificial intelligence to classify data files may reduce the amount of computing resources that the information management system allocates to the data file review process because an auditor may be able to quickly identify those data files that meet the desired criteria using the classification and only request access to those data files. Thus, the information management system may be able to allocate more computing resources to normal or routine tasks, ensuring that such tasks are completed and/or completed in an appropriate amount of time.

    REMEDIAL ACTION BASED ON MAINTAINING PROCESS AWARENESS IN DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220066863A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-03

    申请号:US17522264

    申请日:2021-11-09

    Abstract: An illustrative data storage management system comprises “awareness logic” that executes on computing devices hosting storage management components such as storage manager, data agent, media agent, and/or other storage management applications. The illustrative awareness logic operates within each of these illustrative components, e.g., as a thread within processes of the storage management component, such as storage management core process, file identifier process, log monitoring process, etc. The awareness logic monitors the targeted process over time and triggers remedial action when criteria are met. Certain vital statistics of each process are collected periodically and analyzed by the illustrative awareness logic, such as CPU usage, memory usage, and handle counts. Criteria for corrective action include rising trends based on local minima data points for one or more vital statistics of the process. Other criteria include exceeding a threshold based on a logarithm function of the collected data points.

    Anomaly detection in data protection operations

    公开(公告)号:US11237935B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-01

    申请号:US16676288

    申请日:2019-11-06

    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for better understanding problems arising in an illustrative information management system, such as a data storage management system, and for issuing appropriate alerts and reporting to data management professionals. The illustrative embodiments include a number of features that detect and raise awareness of anomalies in system operations. Categories of interest include events and job anomalies, such as long-running jobs and job success/failure rates. Anomalies are characterized by frequency anomalies and/or by occurrence counts. Utilization is also of interest for certain key system resources, such as deduplication databases, CPU and memory at the storage manager, etc., without limitation. Predicting low utilization periods for these and other key resources is useful for scheduling maintenance activities without interfering with ordinary data protection jobs.

    Remedial action based on maintaining process awareness in data storage management

    公开(公告)号:US10831591B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-10

    申请号:US15868948

    申请日:2018-01-11

    Abstract: An illustrative data storage management system comprises “awareness logic” that executes on computing devices hosting storage management components such as storage manager, data agent, media agent, and/or other storage management applications. The illustrative awareness logic operates within each of these illustrative components, e.g., as a thread within processes of the storage management component, such as storage management core process, file identifier process, log monitoring process, etc. The awareness logic monitors the targeted process over time and triggers remedial action when criteria are met. Certain vital statistics of each process are collected periodically and analyzed by the illustrative awareness logic, such as CPU usage, memory usage, and handle counts. Criteria for corrective action include rising trends based on local minima data points for one or more vital statistics of the process. Other criteria include exceeding a threshold based on a logarithm function of the collected data points.

    REMEDIAL ACTION BASED ON MAINTAINING PROCESS AWARENESS IN DATA STORAGE MANAGEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20200319956A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-08

    申请号:US16906424

    申请日:2020-06-19

    Abstract: An illustrative data storage management system comprises “awareness logic” that executes on computing devices hosting storage management components such as storage manager, data agent, media agent, and/or other storage management applications. The illustrative awareness logic operates within each of these illustrative components, e.g., as a thread within processes of the storage management component, such as storage management core process, file identifier process, log monitoring process, etc. The awareness logic monitors the targeted process over time and triggers remedial action when criteria are met. Certain vital statistics of each process are collected periodically and analyzed by the illustrative awareness logic, such as CPU usage, memory usage, and handle counts. Criteria for corrective action include rising trends based on local minima data points for one or more vital statistics of the process. Other criteria include exceeding a threshold based on a logarithm function of the collected data points.

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